Issue 5.11 (August 1987)

Issue scanned by Richard Goulstone
(Many thanks Richard!)

In Volume 5, Issue 11 along with letters, Q+As, a crossword and classifieds you will find...

• News, gossip and snippets from the industry
• Hardware reviews of:
  • The Canon IX-12 scanner
  • The 20MB Plus Hardcard
  • The Commodore Amiga 500
  • THE NEC LC-800 LED printer
  • Epson PC/AX (an IBM PC/AT clone)
• Software reviews of:
  • R:Base System 5 (and a comparison with dBase III Plus)
  • Aldus Pagemaker for the Mac and PC
• Treating people like numbers in the quest for efficiency. Not a good thing!
• Software piracy: The complaint and the replies
• Education: Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
• Five easy steps to desktop publishing
• Communications - Calling all BBS users
• Columns for
  • Sanyo - User-defined characters
  • Macintosh MORE - An outline processor
  • BBC - Problems of communication
  • Apple - Expanding your Apple II
  • Amstrad - BASIC timing routines
  • Commodore - Computer quests
  • Games
    • Championship Golf for the IBM PC
    • Trivial pursuit for the Atari
  • Atari - System variables
  • MS-DOS - Dottiness about directories
  • 6502 Machine language - Go FORTH. Multiply and divide

...and the usual collection of classic computer advertisements!

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